AN: Here is the final chapter, which will just be a sweet oneshot. And here is the malapropism: uvula = vulva.
I hope you all enjoy.
It had been four months since Maw Maw's death and today was the first time the Chances were celebrating Jimmy and Willie's birthdays without her.
The chocolate cake was baked from scratch by Sabrina, Hope, and Joy and was decorated with separate candles for both father and son; candles shaped like "33" for Jimmy and a candle shaped like "3" for Willie. Jimmy had Willie sitting in his lap, smiling.
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Jimmy and Willie! Happy birthday to you!" The Chances chanted, except Hope and Joy said "Daddy" instead of "Jimmy".
Jimmy and Willie enthusiastically blew out the candles as everyone clapped and also cried because it felt different without her here.
In addition, Virginia finally found out the truth about her mother, and it was hard for her to accept it, but she wasn't in any mood to start digging around for Louise.
Since the funeral, Burt and Virginia have done some much needed renovations on the house (while still trying to preserve its original character) with the money left in Maw Maw's will with the help of Delilah and her husband. Burt and Virginia got a new refrigerator, a new stove, a new microwave, a new couch, and also gave the exterior and interior walls a brand new paint job. The house was starting to look like everyone was actually in the 70s or early 80s instead of just being in an over 40-something-year-old house.
With Maw Maw's room, they converted it into some kind of memorial with her beds made and some of her important outfits (many of which from her younger years were made from scrap material during World War II) - her wedding dress, her prom dresses, her widower outfit, her graduation gown, and the bra and pants she liked to run around in. They donated the rest of her clothes to Goodwill as well as some of the other stuff that was deemed as unimportant.
"Ah, it seems like only yesterday you gave birth on the couch, Sabrina," teased Virginia.
"Yep," Sabrina snorted. "That was also when Maw Maw finally stopped believing her bizarre theory that I was a man."
"Because she saw your uvula," chuckled Virginia along with Burt and Jimmy.
"Yep, you all saw everything while my big birthday boy delivered my little birthday boy," huffed Sabrina. "I kept yelling at you guys to call an ambulance."
"Oh, please," scoffed Virginia. "I saw Joy be born."
"But Dad didn't," reminded Jimmy. "He just sat in the waiting room with Maw Maw."
"Stop it," Hope groaned, wanting to forget that memory. "You're embarrassing me."
Oh, man. Hope is turning into a teenager and I don't like it, thought Jimmy.
"I remember when I had to share a birthday with Maw Maw. It always used to bother me because they wouldn't give me any cake unless I sang to them in a funny voice," reminisced Jimmy as he bopped his toddler on his lap and cooed at him. "But I won't do that to you. Yes, I won't. You can have all the cake you want on your birthday."
"Remember how many surprises we threw for her on her 85th birthday?" Burt reminded.
"Oh, yeah," sighed Virginia happily. "It was adorable. I'm sure going to miss birthdays with her."
AN: I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter, and a final RIP to Cloris Leachman. Please review :)